Team Building Exercises With Ropes
by Maria McCarron, Demand Media
Group jump rope is one exercise for team building using ropes.
Team building exercises with ropes are
a good way to encourage critical thinking and communication as well as build
cooperation and trust between employees. Activities using ropes involve low
physical activity and a low degree of emotional stress, according to Team
Craft. so just about any company's employees can participate. Many corporations
use team building exercises to build corporate culture and motivate employees.
Discussing how each person felt participating in each exercise is an important
part of the process that helps build more trust and understanding that can be
carried into an office environment.
Crossing the Line
The goal of crossing the line is to coerce another person to the
other side of the circle without touching them physically, according to Team
Building USA. Place a rope on a floor in a circle, and divide the circle in
half by using tape. Select two volunteers from a group of employees, and ask
them to face each other on each side of the circle. To get a person to cross
the line, the two can argue, lecture, bribe and trick each other.
Rope Knots Game
In the rope knots game, each person must do his part to untie the
knots in the group or help each other reach the goal of untying them all,
according to Team Building. Take one long rope, and tie a knot for every person
in the group. Space the knots evenly apart. Tell every person to hold onto the
rope on one side of a knot, leaving them one free hand to untie knots. Everyone
must then untie all of the knots in the rope without anyone letting go or
moving their hands on the rope. Once the knots are all united, the exercise is
complete.
Spider Web
Team members must move all people through different shapes made
with string, according to Team Craft. To do this activity a group needs to make
a spiderweb using string. Team members need to pass each other through
different holes in the spiderweb and are given 30 minutes to do so. No hole should
be used twice. The group has to figure out who fits through which hole and
which order they should go through. The team that completes the task in the
least amount of time wins.
Rope Square
The purpose of rope square is to work as a team under a confusing
situation, according to Team Craft. Tie a piece or rope so it forms a circle
and so that everyone in a group can hold onto the rope with both hands. Lay the
rope in a circle on the floor, and ask the group to stand around the circle,
pick up the rope circle with both hands and close their eyes. Instruct them to
walk in a circle a couple of times so they're good and dizzy, and then ask them
to form a square using the rope without opening their eyes.
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